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Piston Hyundai
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Finishing up last week's bombcast and lol at brad saying examples of shit questions "has a game ever made you cry"
It's one of the most overdone questions ever.
Seriously, search NeoGAF thread titles for "made you cry."
Finishing up last week's bombcast and lol at brad saying examples of shit questions "has a game ever made you cry"
It synced up nicely with Austin being completely over the concept of a game giving you feelings being a noteworthy thing on the Beastcast.
I'm okay with this.
I do this all the effing time and it drive me nuts!
This along with The Citizen Kane of Games and Games Aren't Just For Kids are the perfect trifecta of people not taking games seriously.
I cry/tear up at good moments in movies and video games all the time, felt weird that they they were so adamant on it being a stupid question.
Example that gets me every time because of awesomeness, and I'm not even a LOTR fan: https://youtu.be/Z6XicBBN1l4?t=1m09s
Example that gets me every time because of awesomeness, and I'm not even a LOTR fan: https://youtu.be/Z6XicBBN1l4?t=1m09s
The issue is that it's an asked and answered question. People shouldn't be surprised that any media (games included) can elicit an emotional response.
skLaFarebear
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It's more about how it's phrased and what it's asking.
"What games have elicited emotional responses from you" is a lot different than "Has a game ever made you cry" where one can spawn some kind of possible discussion/recommendations and the other is just "yes/no"
nckillthegrimace
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I believe he said that taking something with you from a game that you carry forward into your life is way more important than just having an emotional response, and I think I agree. For example, That Dragon Cancer sounds like a miserable display of human suffering, but I don't know what amazing insight I gain from having that fact that cancer blows reinforced.
Conversely, Undertale is a silly game about wacky monsters, but I'm pretty sure I gleaned some stuff from that nonsense. Really great stuff that's more valuable than "I cried so games are art."
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I really like that Austin can apparently bring out that more thoughtful side from Vinny and especially Alex when they have discussions like that
I think that's mostly a community thing. Fighting game tournaments were a regular thing on the site long before Jason arrived.
The only moment in any form of entertainment (books, tv, movies, games, music) that has ever made me cry is the last 15 or so minutes of Six Feet Under.
Mister Negative
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I watched all of Lost for the first time last year and it made me cry a little numerous times.
I know this is insane, but I finally finished reading the GB GOTY thread. Surreal.
I always loose it during the overture of any musical and at the sad part of most Pixar movies.
The only thing that made me cry about Lost was that I watched all of Lost.
The Constant is one of the best hours of TV ever made, despite being in Lost's latter, poorer seasons.
Mister Negative
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There are two ways to watch Lost. Watch it and be upset about how dumb it is, or watch it and embrace how stupid it is. I chose the latter.
Desmond was just a fantastic character all around. Such a wonderful addition to the show.
Pixar are kind of pros at the whole tearjerking thing.
Yep, Henry Ian Cusick was completely fantastic
The Witness comes out on my birthday. Someone better buy it for me as a gift. The last game to come out on the 26th I wanted was Mass Effect 2. Got that as a present. It was fucking rad.
Now, I'm certain that The Witness won't have anything as rad as Mordin, but still. I'd look forward to almost anything that took seven years to make.
I loved Lost for all the mythology and tapestry of connections and references in the background, as well as the ARG stuff like the Dharma Initiative and how spoopy it was. Made discussions fun and I love looking through wiki page after wiki page learning about everything.
Bad Robot in general produces great ARGs. Cloverfield and Lost were a ton of fun to speculate about and read into.
Twin Tails
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You should finish both seasons of SAO and then stare at yourself in the mirror and say "what am I doing?"
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Dat knowing look when Dan said glasses.
ALL. THE. TIME.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
StopMakingSense
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A moment of silence for all the Kerbals that are sure to perish for our enjoyment this morning.
TheMrPliskin
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MassiveNights
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I cry quite a lot at books and films, rarely TV shows but never games.
I am definitely a crier.
How was the Dan Dad QL thing?
I am definitely a crier.
How was the Dan Dad QL thing?
Good.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Cry for kerbals.
Sent to their deaths in vain by a madman.
Sent to their deaths in vain by a madman.
alex asking all the right questions!
Only watched the first segment so far (ape escape 2) but it's real good
MassiveNights
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How many weeks will it take Dan to realise he doesn't have to shout to talk to Jason anymore?
TheMrPliskin
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It managed to go both better and worse than I was expecting.
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